Yep. Meta’s convinced him that this is a huge victory for Mastodon – and a good way for him to achieve his goal of getting Mastodon to 100,000,000 users.

Right, a post embed that results in anybody visiting your site gets tracked by Meta (whether or not they have an account there).

You’re completely right that there are likely to be major scalability issues, at this point I don’t think anybody fully knows what the implications are, and it’s not getting a lot of discussion. This is part of why Meta’s proceeding slowly and presumably we’ll see a lot of performance work over the next few months to deal with the expected onslaught.

Exactly. XMPP has hundreds of millions of users too (billions of you count WhatsApp’s non-standard version) and Matrix has close to 100 million but we don’t consider them part of the fediverse either.

No, Meta claims that Threads has 100 million monthly active users, the fediverse as a whole has 1.4 - 1.7 million depending on whose statistics you use. Even if they’re exaggerating, it’s still much got a lot more users.

That’s the only one that’s currently active as far as I know. https://mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/110586556696261405 has a bunch of resources including blocklist for other Meta domains as well.

Glad you liked it, I like to put in a treat for people who read all the way to the end!

It’s not a typo but I see what you mean, I meant that it has a lot fewer people in it but it’s not great wording and I’ll fix it. Thanks!

Yep, I’ve said for a while that if a schism with transitive defederation happens, it’ll be a good thing. There are many fediverses!

That’s a great article. I linked to it in the OP:

The same is true with Google’s adoption and then abandonment of the XMPP protocol, which is also often described as EEE. I don’t think that’s the right way to look at it; for one thing, XMPP is still around, and thanks to adoption by Zoom and others it has hundreds of millions of users – or billions, if you count WhatsApp’a non-standard derivative version. But in any case, whether or not it was EEE, Google didn’t go into it with a goal of killing XMPP. They just wanted to exploit XMPP to address a business problem of making Google Talk successful – and did so, until it wasn’t useful to them any more.

Yes, Mastodon instances can indeed refuse to federate with Threads – you’re not misunderstanding anything. You can track what instances are and aren’t federating at https://fedipact.veganism.social/ (the “FediPact” it mentions is an agreement that hundreds of instances have signed to block Meta). Currenntly, about 40% of instances aren’t federating – but most of the largest instances are.

I didn’t have that in the original draft, and half the people who reviewed it said “I don’t understand what you mean by exploit”. And no, I don’t think people reading the article are dumb as shit, I assume that most people who already know what exploit means are intelligent enough to skip over the four lines of cut-and-paste text and read the rest of the article.

Try reading the article, others seem to understand the point I’m making (whether or not they agree).

Many others are optimistic as well. In general I think Meta’s arrival will be positive for the fediverse (and I just edited the post to make that clearer). In any case I think the fediverse will clearly survive.

Yet another word that starts with an E! Thanks for the link, I added a link to the post near the end of the “Extinguish isn’t the only word that starts with an E”:

Either way, as Ramin Honary suggests, it’s a great opportunity for Enshittification – yet another word that starts with an E!